Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThey don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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